First post, by AZCharlie02
After my working Pentiium II system died, I tried to build a new computer that could run some games I saw on Phil's Comuter Lab: Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness and Battlefield 1942. Both games seem to choke on my system. Here are my details:
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
Intel D865GLC motherboard
ATI Radeon 9550 Graphics
SoundBlaster Live 5.1 audio
512 MB RAM
Direct X 9.0c
The sound in Battlefield 1942 always runs as it should, but every time I get to the Options screen and click on "Video" The game crashes and locks in some weird screen pattern. I've tried numerous settings of refresh rate and resolution, downgraded hardware acceleration, and reduced color depth to 16-bit. Nothing changes the outcome. Now I'm wondering if there is someting basically wrong with my configuration.
A very similar resuilt occurs with TRAOD, (requiring Direct X 9) a lockup of the video screen at the end of the opening movie where a blue screen reads "Build 52."
This is a far more powerful system than my older one--almost all my DOS games won't run--so maybe I need to find ways to slow it down. Any help is appreciated. I tried Battlefield in a slower system (P4 2.4 GHz, ASUS P4S8x, Radeon 128 Pro, SB Lve 5.1, 1 GB RAM, Direct X 8.1) and it appeared to run OK without my tweaking any settings. That's the way I expected games to run. Is it the complexity of the games or my hardware causing problems?